Fancy what a game of chess would be if all the chessmen had passions and intellects, more or less small and cunning; if you were not only uncertain about your adversary's men, but a little uncertain also about your own. You would be especially likely to be beaten, if you depended arrogantly on your mathematical imagination, and regarded your passionate pieces with contempt. Yet this imaginary chess is easy compared with a game a man has to play against his fellow-men with other fellow-men for instruments.
George EliotYou youngsters nowadays think you're to begin with living well and working easy; you've no notion of running afoot before you get on horseback.
George EliotWhen God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it wasโhe only saw the brightness of the Lord.
George Eliot